Imperialism, Health and Medicine

Includes articles which offer an alternative view of the political and economic causes of substandard health care in the underdeveloped societies of the Third World.

Vicente Navarro,

-Introduction: The Nature of Imperialism and Its Implications in Health and Medicine Vicente Navarro PART 1: The Political and Economic Determinants of the Underdevelopment of Health and Health Services -The Underdevelopment of Health or the Health of Underdevelopment: An Analysis of the Distribution of Human Health Resources in Latin America Vicente Navarro -Human Rights, Health, and Capital Accumulation in the Third World Michel Chossudovsky -The Economic and Political Determinants of Human (Including Health) Rights Vicente Navarro -Drought and Dependence in the Sahel Nicole Ball PART 2: U.S. Foundations, U.S. Foreign Policy and International Health -Foreign Intervention in Medical Education: A Case Study of the Rockefeller Foundation's Involvement in a Thai Medical School PeterJ. Donaldson -Nutrition, Development, and Foreign Aid: A Case Study of U.S. Directed Health Care in a Columbian Plantation Zone Michael Taussig -Community Medicine Under Imperialism: A New Medical Police? Jaime Breilh PART 3: Critiques of Malthusian and Neo-Malthusian Population Theories and Their Political Function -Population Growth--A Menace to What? Erland Hofsten -An Historical Sketch of the American Population Control Movement Bonnie Mass PART 4: Corporate Power and Underdevelopment -Industrialization and Occupational Health in Underdeveloped Countries Ray H. Elling -Breast-Feeding: The Role of Multinational Corporations Latin America Michael B. Bader -The Political Economy of Controlling Transnationals: The Pharmaceutical Industry in Sri Lanka, 1972-1976 Sanjaya Lall and Senaka Bibile -Contributors